Journal of the Korean Geographical Society (대한지리학회지)
- Volume 32 Issue 4
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- Pages.479-490
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- 1997
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- 1225-6633(pISSN)
The Origin of the Ancient Place Name, Dumo
두모系 古地名의 起源
- Nam, Young-Woo (Department of Geography Education, Korean University) ;
- 남영우 (高麗大學校 地理敎育科) ;
- Published : 1997.12.01
Abstract
This study attempted to grasp the etimological meaning of the ancient place name Dumo, and to identify when the ancient place names in Dumo system started to be used by Korean people. The results of analysis of generic toponym and specific toponym of the ancient place names in Dumo system are as follow: Firstly, Chumong, the name of the founder of the Koguryo Dynasty, and his two sons Biryu,the founder of the kingdom Biryu-Paekche, and Oncho, the founder of the kingdom Paekche, are presumed to originate from place name, not from person's name. Particularly, the name of Chumong is considered to be a person's name which comes from Dumo system. Oncho, who claimed to be a son of Chumong, a person of north-Puyo, transterred the capital of his kingdom to the present site of Dumo in Chunggung-dong, Hanam city in present, which is thought to be an early capital of Paekche or a part of it. Secondly, the word of Dumo means a warm space which is surrounded by mountains, protected from wind, endowed with river which provided with water. This kind of spatial cognition gradually evolved as the prototypical locational artifice which was diffused to Manchuria and Japan, and is believed to be introduced to the Korean Peninsula.
본 연구는 두모계의 古地名이 언제부터 한민족과 함께하기 시작했으며, 그것이 지니는 어원적 의미에 관하여 고찰한 것이다. 두모계의 屬地名과 種地名을 분석한 결과, 고대 사회에서는 地名과 人名간에 交界領域이 있었으며, 고구려와 백제의 시조인 주몽과 그의 아들비류와 온조는 본래 人名이 아니라 地名에서 비롯된 것으로 추정된다. 특히 주몽은 두모계 지명에서 비롯된 人名으로 간주되며, 온조는 아버지의 영향으로 도읍지를 두머에 천도한 것으로 생각된다. 두모는 산으로 둘러싸여 있고 하천이 흐르는 온화한 주거 공간을 의미하며, 이같은 한민족 특유의 立地術은 고대에 이른바 東夷文化圈에 전파되었을 것으로 추정된다.
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